Federal CIO Kundra: "The Default Setting Of The U.S. Government Should Be Open"
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra spoke at Wired magazine’s Disruptive By Design business conference today, demonstrating data.gov, a new online hub for data from government agencies. Although Kundra (left) conceded that data.gov has to be careful of the information it publishes — in order to avoid violating citizens’ privacy or throwing off the financial markets with faulty info — he said he hoped to facilitate transparency of government agencies.
“The default setting of the U.S. government should be open,” Kundra said, adding that he hopes to publish data from government agencies across the board in order to allow the American people to manipulate and use it.
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